Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1923, Page 6

6 THE. EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY......March 17, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star Newspap: ¢ Company | Business Office, 11th St. and Pennavivania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nawan St. Chicago Office: Tower Tnilding European Office: 16 Regent St., London. Engiand. | trom The Evenine Star, with the Sundav. morning edition, Ix delivercd by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: dniy only, 43 cents per month: Sundas only, 20 conta per month. Or- ders may be sent by mait, or telephone Main 6000. Collcetlon Is made by carriers at the | end of each month. | Rate by Mail—Pagable in Advance. Marylend arvd Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40: 1 mo., 70° Dally only » $6.00: 1 mo., Ke Bunday only. £2.40; 1 mo.. 20¢ All Other Stafes. Paily and Sunday..1 yr.. §10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ | Daily only. $700: 1 mo., 80c Bunday only. £3.00: 1 mo., =S¢ Member of the Assaciated Press. The Associated Press fc exelusively entitled e the uxe for republication af all news dls- ‘s credited to 1t or not otherwise credited iis ‘paper and o the local news pud- \ts of publication or o5 ierein are also reserved = St. Patrick's Day in Ireland. Another St. to find Ireland hea ickened ferred. It green are at compar their ancient enemi conflict with British, for the Brit- fsh have departed. Between the Orangemen of the north and the Cath- alics Jatrick’s day has come torn with strife and | hope of peace de- | wearers of the | tive peace with | There is no; by is true th | ! of the south there is truce. War | in Ireland today is fraternal, and be- | cause brother is arrayed against brother the conflict is waged with the extreme of bitterness, leaving scars which will require generations for their healing. But, dark and discouraging is the present, there is a ray of hope in the fact that the government pf the Free State ‘continues to function. President Cosgrave and those ciated with him have shown that they Eave both the will and the courage to govern. The world has been shocked at times by the severity of their me: ures, but it must be realized that they are confronted with desperate opposi- tion, and it may be that drastic re. pression is necessary if the situation 18 to be kept in hand at all. It cannot he doubted that the Free State government is more strongly in- trenched today than ever before, but those neck-or-nothing followers of Bamonn De Valera show no signs of willingness to give up the struggle. The warfare they are waging is along | guerrilla lines, always difficult to com- | bat. but day by day they are heing pressed harder and their field of opera- tions circumscribed. There are no in- dications that new adherents are being won to their cause, and without such | recruiting their end is inevitable. While the situation in Ireland is de- plorable, and a cause of grief to all true friends of the Irish people, the ‘world should be charitable in its cri cisms and slow to find in present tur- moil evidence of incapacity for self- government. It must be remembered that complete freedom for Ireland has been a dream of centuries, and men do not readily relinquish dreams for which their fathers have gladly died. It may be true that under the present scheme of a Free State government they can have all the substance of liberty, but the shadow is not there and often shadows are dearer to men's | hearts than concrete benefits. So the world should be patient with the Irish, | for they are not the first people who have had to win through travail and suffering to freedom and happiness and orderly rule. as as; i i | body. THE EVENING ————————== | | instances of the loss of lifetime sav- ings are related. influence these classes of people and have them deposit their savings in American banks or banks conducted junder our laws things would be far | better. The: question is how to do it. A compatriot gets the reputation of being a shrewd business man and of being a wizard in making money. He is Delieved to be honest. He comes the home country and speaks the language of home. He promises to pay & much higher rate of interest than anybody else. It is always a much hizher rate of interest than money can earn. He pays this interest for a time, not out of nings, but out of depositors’ mone; The news travels that he is really paying ’steen per cent. When the deposits are to his satisfaction the compatriot disappears and there is wailing. Is there no agency that can reach these foreign- language people and make it clear to them that there is no wide and easy road to fortune, that get-rich-quick schemes are run by sharpers for their own benefit, and that savings should | be deposited in the American way? New Traffic Rules. Washington may soon have a new set of traffic rules. The traffic commit- tee has placed its report in the hands of the Distriet Commissioners. It is in- dicated that the committee has con- centrated on the safety regulations, such ax speed, right of way, headlights and signals. Washington wants the lightened traffic rules it can get. wants rules dictated by its own perience and the experience of other citics. Then, when the Commiss all have adopted and promul the wisest and fairest rules that e devised the city asks that drive and pedestrians them. It asks that the police shall be vigilant here are dr 5 most en- 1t ex- observe in enforcing them : and strians who seem unwilling to observe any regulations that out of line with their immediate con- venience or their whim of a moment. Meretofore whenever traffic regula- tions have heen agreed upon by the authorities there have been a large number of motorists who seemed to pede are regulations hecause they did not ap- prove them: They would say that “this is a fool r “that is an unw regulation” and so forth. Many men had their own ideas about what a rule of right of way should be. The auto-driving public is still on these and other matters. There is criticism from drivers that the speed that it is too high. When the new set of rules isadopted and put into effect the traffic regula- tions should be observed by every- The police must enforce them for the protection of the public and for the education of those persons who do not know the rules or are indifferent to their observance. This is the only way in which the dangers of the street may be reduces —_———— Prosperity’s Index. Railroad earnings are accepted in the financial world as an unerring in- dex of -the condition of trade and in- dustry throughout the country. Tn- i creases in freight and passenger traffic infallibly point to increased output of factory and shop; to added purchasing power of the general public, to moving of the farmere’ products in larger vi ume and to the ability of the public to travel on business or for recreation. Figures given out yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission speak eloquently in terms news of the steadily growing perity of the nation at large. Taking pros- —_——— More Playgrounds. An increase in playground facilities 18 in prospect. Money becoming avail- able on July 1 will, it is said, make possible the opening of eleven addi-| tional school yards and three- new municipal playgrounds, and this will | give a total of fiftyfive recreation | centers for Washington's children. | This is progress. The public play- ground idea goes ahead. With safe| the statistics of 194 class 1 railroads, operating about 90 per cent of the total rail mileage of the United States, it was found that net earnings during January were approximately twice as great as during the month of January a year ago. They amounted to $68,- 941,000, against $35,265.000 in Janu- i jary, 1922, The total revenues for January of this year were $502,160,000, compared with $295,777,000 for the same month If it could be possible to reach and | feel that they were not bound by these | t6 i rate of speed should be, and what the | in division | limit is too low, and from pedestrians | of good] play places provided for the children {a year ago. An extraordinary increase they will pot, or ought not to, use the [ in the volume of transportation ac- streets as playgrounds, fewer will be | counts for the additional total rev- run down by vehicles and they will nhave the benefit of regulated play and proper apparatus for health-promoting | and body-building games H i —_—————— Bloc. English is a very hospitable lan- guage to foreign words. It has enter- tained and finally adopted so many that it has become a wonderful gather- ing of immigrant or imported words. Here is the word “bloc” which our language! has recently taken to its breast. It is a Frenchman. Whether it is a native of France or Gaul is un- certain, for in various spellings, mean- ing a block, log, stump or hard mass, it appears in the Scandinavian tongues and was used by some of the other northern races of Europe. ————————— The primitive villagers of Daghestan who believe America is in total dark- ness are, of course, wrong, but along about income tax time it does seem pretty dark here, at that. —————— Presidential fishing-trip jokes about angling for renominations are barred. Mr. Harding already has that fish on his stringer. Will the clean-up for the Shrine convention include bootleggers and handbook men? Americanization Needed. There seems to be need for the Americanization of many foreigners in money matters. It i{s a frequent hap- pening that hundreds and thousands of foreigners, generally non-English speaking, deposit their savings in the tawdry “bank” of & fellow country- man with disastrous results. The latest affalr of this kind is reported from New York, where operators of a “bank” and steamship agency have disappeared, according to news ac- counts, leaving to mourn thousands of “depoeitors” who had placed with them about $2,000,000, It is eaid that this firm did not even pretend to run & bank, but gave to depositors a prom- issory note in return for cash. Many 18 enues. These fizures are regarded as a wonderful showing of business im- provement. They constitute evidence supporting that furnished by the in- creased income tax returns of the state of the Union in a business way. chants are eager for goods. On every side abound other evidences showing that business is on the upgrade with a steady swing. Let the pessimist take a back seat and hold his peace. There is no place for the grumbler in the good old; United States, for Uncle Sam has | struck his gait and the prosperity pro- cession is on the move. Let us all keep step with it. The report that Stinnes is not tak- ing a hand in the tentative negotia- tions with the French does not give as- surance that sooner or later he will not put his foot in it. ——————— The taciturnity of Underwood when ‘questioned as to his aspirations for 1924 recalls the observation of Eurip- ides, “Silence is an answer to a wise man.” —_———————— Is the use of a police dog by dry ralders to be taken as wet propaganda, demonstrating as it does the extraordi- { | Unemployment has decreased, mer-| cept ‘imprisonment on those terms. opinion. * They know that women are jangels in this world and feel that they are necessary to the happiness, if not the peace, of any other world. This evangelist particularly de- nounces woman's style in dress. That criticism does no good and it does no harm. A million yards of denuncia- tion will not add one inch to woman's clothes. She determines that matter for herself, and no man, whether he is an evangelist or nothing more than a mere husband, has, she thinks, any right to interfere. Woman is beauti- ful by nature, but if she thinks a bit of lace, a bit of ribbon and some feath- ers will increase her charm she will carry out her will though a hundred ! evangelists scowl and lament. Tt would be just as sensible for a dwarf to stand on Giesboro Point and try to hold back the tides of the Potomac river as for any man to try to keep | woman from dressing in style. Some | have held that woman dresses for the i sole purpose of attracting men. She | succeeds admirably. But woman | dresses for women also. She knows that she has the best taste in Wash. |ington, that she wears her clothes | with style and that she knows a bar- gain when she finds one. She wants other women to look on with pleasure, { of course. and if not with pleasure, then with envy. —_— Bunk. the police dog, has arrived in ‘hington, has been appointed on the police force and has taken up his duties. His career will be watched with interest. But let us not be hasty or impatient. This is a new town to i Officer Bunk. He was born and raised, { or reared, in Ithaca, and there is some | difference hetween Ithaca and Wash- ington. This is a larger town, and Bunk should be given time to get his bearings, learn the ropes and the streets, get in touch with local condi- tions and get a line on our prominent | criminals. Whether Washington crim- inals are worse and craftier than those in Ttha is not known, and Bunk has given no opinion on this subject. He is ‘eping an open mind and perhaps an open mouth. loyal Washingtonians that criminals or evildoers of a certain kind are suf- ficiently numerous in Washington keep Officer 3unk interested and awake. Just how much of an amend- ment enforcer Bunk will turn out to bLe remains to be seen. That he has a fine sense of smell is taken for granted, and that ought to help him in his work. Friends of this new addition to the police force hope that he will rise superior to his name—Bunk. i —_———e————— Discrimination. Uncle Sam discriminates between his two wards, Porto Rico and the Philippines, when it comes to allow- ing a “wee drappie.” The War De partment announces that Porto Rico must remain dry, but that the Philip- pines may ‘“gang their ain gait” in the case of regulating the liquor traf- fic. This decision was reached after consultation with the Department of Justice. It is explained that Porto Rico is literally a part of the United States, therefore subject to all its laws and regulations. The charter of the Philip- pines, however, endows that govern- ment with power to make local laws, {and the Philippines have never passed {a Volstead act i —_——— | The announcement of the head of | the Standard Oil directors anent salt { water in the Mexican wells will be re- garded by many, in view of the La i Follette monopoly charges, as an at- tempt to pour water on troubled oil. Mary Garden announces herself as will wait to see if the “every day in every way" patter materially affects the famous diva’'s voice. The fiddler must be paid. Out of each dollar of tax on your income 85 cents will go for war and 15 cents for non-war purposes. The Mascagni-Mocchi duel has been jcalled off. The { poser and his impresario are presum- sabl)' graduate nts of harmony. —_———————— cauent tlarding to find the state a seaport. Mexico is vearning for mountain peak. —————e—— a Rocky months in jail. Many a man would ac- ‘William Rex. Simplified spelling for what he does to marital as well as international relations? Coal profiteers are reassured. Wish was father to the thought that winter has passed. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick's day! St. Patrick’s day! And here you are again To drive all evil things away From hillside and from glen! ‘'Tis like a gentleman you try ‘To banish from the scene All ugliness as spring comes by A-wearing of the green! The violet with timid charm Is waiting to draw nigh, But winds that fill her with elarm Come muttering from the sky. nary faculties of a rum hound? _ - There are no snakes in Ireland, but St. Patrick could find other things to scotch were Re to return today. ‘Woman. An evangelist preaching in Wash. ington is reported to have said some harsh things about women'’s dress and So never mind the toads or snakes, But let your mind expand To chase away the cloud that makes The trouble in your land. No Hero to Her. ‘There was & man so wondrous wise that everybody said He carried all worth knowing in the limits of his head. He was expert in calculus, and talked ways. The woman has been an ob- ject of denunciation ever since the first of per sex ate an apple, and some pious men seem to hold an ancient grudge against her. But the common run of men have forgiven her early indiscretion, court her, marry her and pay her bills. There was a dispute several years ago whether there could be woman angels, and it was decided that angels must be sculptured as men. Some men take exception to this in ancient Greek; ‘Trigonometry was simple as a game of hide and seek. The world would praise his wisdom, but his wife spoke not a word— She smiled in mute derision of the tributes that she heard; For she thought of how she'd let him g0 to market once or twice, ‘When he bought more than was need- ed at & most outrageous price. 1t is believed by the most | tol a disciple of Br. Coue, and the world | seconds of the com.j STAR, WASHINGTO WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE N, D. C, SATURDAY, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who has not been in Washington for a long time, is due here next week on a literary mission. He desires to consult the Trumbull letters, in the Lincoln collection at the Library of Congress, in connection with his forthcoming monumental life of Abraham Lincoln. To cotemporary Washingtonians who knew Beveridge as a brilliant young senator of the United States, it will be a matter of some difliculty to realize that he is in his sixty-first year. He is be- Heved, in lizht of recent events in| Indiana, definitely to have forsworn {politics and to have determined to {dedicate himself exclusively to writ- ing pursuits. His Lincoln will prob- | nece - students educated at Chinese ably, like his classic John Marshall, | government expense Amerl prospectively occupy him, as the cob G. Schurman, now our minister at carlier work did, several years. Peking. AR An exodus of Ameri writers to Europe is in progress. ach and Brsckinslage: |Tong juses \as & |averyone heging onerdtions/aCVash e . i or the dual_purpose of arm- B . d credentials and fixing up his fences at of his grandfathers, S, M. Breckin- |foreign embassics and legs Hldge for) IKantuckcy, as /a | snumhox, (&(CC IR | JORRRH, 10 LS < The young Missouri democrat con-|fered a seductive writing cont cedes that his ancestor would doubt- |covering his Iuropean meandering. less turn in his grave if he could | divine the profane uses to which his snuff-container now is put. “Yet, says Long, “I don't know that cigar would not suceumb. Senator Mo ses will be heard from through news ettes are any worse than snuff, that' ditions for the United States Depart- ment of Labor. * ok K * There is rejoicing both in the dip- lomatic corps and in American offi- cial quarters over the prospective re- turn of Dr. Alfred Sze as Chinese minister. No diplomat sent to the United States ever enjoyed such in- timate personal ties with Washington Sze does. He was one of the first Chinese Loys sent to our country to be educated and prides himself on once having been a Washington high school cadet. They were the days when young Chinamen wore pigtails and there are grown-ups at the capi- tal who remember vividly having pulled the queue of young Sze. Later he was among the first batch of Chi- paper dispatches. mx the well known professional bes who will explore old world are Lothrop - | Stoddard, author of “The Rising Tide at f Color” und “The w World of Is- [1am,” and who is going * K ok K |to ook : condition Th = Sust satled for his native | GATEett is an ardent anti-cancell There has just salled for his native | (jonist and may be expected to turn heat® a Briton who won the coveted |up live material in substantiation of honor of knighthood for services ren- | Europe’s ability, some day, somehow, dered to the motherland at Washing. | (¢ S(1U4Te dccounts with Gl by ton. He is Sir A. Maurice Low, vet- | b eran newspaper correspondent and| APFopos the hot water into which for many years the resident repre. | M€ Of President Harding's personal sentative of the aristocratic London ;?‘Irul"l(‘!fl :u rt;:lerdl l.iflxl.' recently Morning Post. A Britisher who's heen | Mare TUf, this observers attention 18 Rt A e s lculled to the ethics which inspired knight untit | : Woodrow Wilson with regard to lie has knelt before his sovereign and | reign ani tions that could be assailed as [ non recelved the, “accolade.” This e > | personal. His admirers claim that, sists of a royal embrace, and a slight | - A |apart from cabinet selections, Presi- blow on the shoulder with the flat ‘:I--nl Wilson religiously immunized blade of a sword. Low has been|himself aguinst the possibility of such s e wnitey o o leriticism. It is of record that if an fomiclion M jihie fOnlted S fOr | geserving democrat was ever recon more than thirty years, No writer of | mended for office and happened to be any nationality has a wider acquaint- | named Wilson, exhaustve ance with our politics and politicians, | V4% necessary to determine that he by no cha was a4 remote relation of He was a war correspondent in Cuba | the 'reside The late James Gor- id once wrote a two-volume |don Bennett was no_less particular. i [ He once hea e Ta o on “The American People: A Study in | (1o Now Yerk Herald mag o remmetor National Psychology.” In 1918, henameq nett. “Fire young Ben- produced “Woodrow Wilson : terpretation.” An In-|nerr,” as the pr e Z | % oprietor's imperious During the Roos elt | order. “One Bennett on the Herald administration Low was commissioned | is enough." to investigate British industrial con- con- a a work s (Copyright, 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Impending Labor Control Looms in | meaning when the labor party is the e party of the British ministry.” Inas- Great Britain. | much as the establishment of an out- British normalcy apparently has|and-out labor ministry would require not lasted very long. in the cpinion |elcction of twice as many members of of the various editors who have|parijament as labor now controls, the watched the recent developments in | pittsburgh Sun thinks it probable that country. The fact that, although | \r. Law will go down before a coali- he was placed in power by a clear|tion, such as held Mr. George in power parliamentary majority, Bonar Law |iong after his direct party following only a few months later seems to find | pag dwindled to almost nothing.” It {it Impossible to select a single M'e‘m possible, however, that *“too much constituency within which his min-|gignificance” is being attached to the isters safely can secure re-election, is | developments, the Indianapolis Star {held to indicate that, after all, the |yuggests, because, “while the result tory organization does not hold the |,f the by-elections jolted the present confidence of the people. It also seems | government, the damage is by no to be accepted that the labor PAarty | means irreparabie.” eventually will be placed in the sad-| Lack of any policy to re<t ..:xxsung dle and that radical methods will have | sjtuations, especially the housing | their try-out in conservative England. | muddle, has had the effect of weaken- H “Bonar Law merely breathes—noth-'ing the government's position as the ing more,” suggests the Detroit News, | Utica Press sees it, and that paper “because the opposition to liberalism | suggests eventually the ministry ma: is not stout enough to draw away the | be reconstructed and even Lloyd pulmoter. Labor, the real opposition, | George drawn into it to prevent a | strengthens itself daily and faces only | labor ministry. While expected, “the | the profound difficulty of covering too | reaction against the conservative as- wide a range of political thought in | cendancy has begun sooner than ex- !its membership. Mr. Law does not|pected.” says the Syracuse Herald, |understand that the British public|which likewise calls attention to the wants its thinking done for it, having | fact “to make the development more been accustomed to that process for a | disquieting to tory England the con- long, long time.” Immediate action |servative loss is a gain, not for the must be taken if the present ministry | liberal opposition, but for British la- is to survive, and the Philadelphia |bor and its platform of heterogeneous | Recora suggests Mr. Law “may light- | radicalism.” en his ship, which is now laboring in| After outlining in detail the pro- ia heavy sea. by throwing the land-|gram of the British laborites, the {lords overboard, or he may throw the | Louisville Post says: “If the English | French overboard. The latter would | labor party should prevail we do not |1ead to startling results and is not to ! say that such a victory would spell 3 , MARCH 17, inquiry | 1923. The Library Table By The Booklover 014 age is the universal tragedy. It (s the specter which lurks in the shadows ahead for every man and woman who has reached forty, and it seems to be almost equally dreaded by both sexes. To some it means the end of sex conquests; to others laying aside cherished work and ac- tive Interests; to others merely in- creasing discomforts and Infirmities; but very few agree with Browning's mood: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. This disinclination to accept old age willingly probably dates from the earliest times. H. G. Wells tells us in his “Outline of History” that mong primitive peoples the old mun f the tribe monopolized the best place by the camp fire and the best tidbits from the hunt, until he be came too much of a nuisance. when was knocked on the head by on of the younger chieftains. Who can doubt that the old man of the tribe disliked the thought of old age? * K % K on the subject has ‘n so acute that from the of civilization search has bee Discontent always by dawn old age, whether in the medict springs of some unexplored country or in new chemical combinations in an obscure laboratory. If Gertrude therton's new novel, “Black Oxen were only truth instead of fiction the cure would be at hand and we should soon see about us only youth and charming early middle age, as all the old could =o easily be rejuvenated. * ok X ¥ In “Black Oxen” Mary Zattiany, almost sixty, who has been a New York belle of the eighties, returns to New York in 1923, after long vears of residence abroad as the wife of & Hungarian nobleman. But she re- turns a8 a charming, beautiful woman, apparently not over thirty, the replica of her former self, but with a difference, due to the wisdom of experience. Her old friends, now grandmothers and ecither fat or with- ered representatives of the old regime, fail to recognize her. At a luncheon she makes herself known to them and explains the transformation that has taken place. The most re- jcent and wonderful of biological dis- |coveries. she sa) are that old age is due to the atrophy of the ductless glands and that the re-encrgized by X-ray treatment. She has undergone this treatment in Vienna with complete success. She tells her astonished hearers that new proverb must now be adopted, “A man is as old as his endocrines"— and then she has to explain en- docrines.” | * % ok % Gufld Library, just published, is the iplay “R. U. H."” by the Czecho- |slovakian dramatist, Karel Capek. {which is now running in New York. {The letters of the title stand for Ros sum’s Universal Robots; but, knowing {this, the unsophisticated person is |about as much in the dark as ever. {The first act of the play soon deve. chine-made man or woman with a highl entirely lacking in all tastes and emotions which 80 sadly with industrial output. invention of the Robots was the work of the Rossums, father and son. Thu play is a clever, stinging satire on Imodern industrialism. In its satiric {treatment of human selfishness |suggests Sw ‘Voyage to Houyhnhnms" its story of disastrous effects of laboratory ation of life it suggests Mrs. Shelle: gruesome romance, “Frankenstein.’ * x ok x Those of us who in our vouth watched eagerly for each weekly number of Harper's Young People in order to follow the adventures of {Toby Tyler, who ran away with the circus, will soon be glad to join the children in going to see Toby in the movies, as James Otis’ juvenile fa- vorite, *Toby Tyler; or. Ten Wee With a Circus.” will soon be released. PR Readers interested in folk-lore and anthropology who have heard of the fame of Sir James George Fraser's “The Golden Bough; a Study in Magic and Religion,” but who have hesitated when they learned of the extent of the com- the human interfere 1 | | an abridged edition is now available in a single volume. It contains 750 closely printed pages, but the author states that in large part the language of the orlg- al work has been retained and that { condensation has been largely secured by the omission of foot-notes and bib- i ! made for a preventive or a cure for | glands may be | The first volume of the new Theater | jops the fact that a Robot is a ma-| developed labor efficiency and | The | plete work. will be pleased to know that | be looked for immediately, but the | British prime minister may be driven, !in the course of a few weeks, to make the doom of the British empire, but!jjographies. This remarkable work, ex- we may not doubt that it would cause | hibiting at once prodigious scholarship, a panic of far-reaching character. 1t Maybe New A man has earned $5,000 in several | good his threats. The dissolution of jthe entente would be a momentous event.” is inconceivable that a majority of the English voters will favor that {program, but it is not inconceivable that with the opposition divided be- tween conservatives and liberals the labor party may not be formlidable in ! the next few years.” This is far from being the feeling of the St. Paul Yloneer-Press, however, which thinks “a labor government just now would be an enlightening experiment. Re- sponsibility always has great powers of transforming radicalism. and the day it comes into power. if ever, the education of the labor party will be- gin." The New York Globe is con- vinced “the conservative government seems to have seriously misunderstood the temper of the people upon the purely domestic and partially local is. sue of housing. Here is a real de- parture. David Lloyd George found his Waterloo in the near eastern af- fair, and every other conspicuous gov=- ernment head that has come a crop- per since 1918 discovered his difficul- ties in international affairs.” It should also be remembered, the Hart- ford Times says, that “in England just now votes against the government are symptomatic of the general unrest which is explained simply by the fact that there has been a great war. “Under the English system the la- bor party tomorrow may be the con- trolling party,” says the Allentown Call, “and it will excite no great sur- prises to those who have watched af- fairs to see England. the ancient stronghold of an intrenched land- lowning group, in the hands of labor ipeople and its pohcies dictated by what the Russians term the prole- tariat. The situation in England is one that the tories, llke the bourbons, thought never would be possible. That it was foreseen by that keen news- paper man the late Lord Northeliffe is recalled when it is told that he al, ways encouraged the reporters on his newspapers to become acquainted with and very friendly with the lead- ers of the labor party, for, said he, ‘it will stand you in good stead when you meet them in Downing street,’ —_— IN A FEW WORDS Charles Dickens is passe in Chicago, Thackeray’'s novels are gathering dust on the shelves and Walter Scott is a back number. People prefer the modern writers. —CARL RODIN (Chicago Public Li- ‘brary). Bedroom farces are crowded with youngsters who are but a step r moved from bedtime stories. —REV. CHARLES BLACK. American aetivity lacks selection. Everybody tries to do everything, see everything and be everything. _—MRS. ELSIE ARDEN. Stitches are a thing of the past. ‘Women will not be bothered by sew- ing, cutting or fitting in the future. Clothes will be draped on them and held in place by concealed pins. MME. ALLA RIPLEY. Our statesmen in Great Britain have = habit of talking too casually about going to war which goes against the grain of those who have been through one. —LOVAT FRASER. It would be a most intolerable world if everybody spent their time hunting for first principles. —LORD BALFOUR. “Falr, fat and forty” is a I have always contended that there was no more highly sexed period than the Victorian era, when a girl was supposed to swoon if she showed her ankle. —MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. My ideal man is a poet in_ his heart, whether his business is selling bonds or bullding bridges. —PEGGY WOOD. I have lived to be 110 vears old, but I cannot see any reason for it except that I stopped drinking when I was eighty-five. —MANUEL LEE SILVA. It is not reparations the French want, it is security, which isn't strange considering = that their country has been invaded three times in two generations. —LORD ROBERT CECIL. ‘We have abundant evidence that violence has been done to the old-time democratic theory of the rights of the states against federal invasion, guaranteed by the Constitution. —GOV. SMITH (N. Y.) The lives lost on the fleld of action in the world war were absolutely wasted and the selfish, rrow states- manship of the European nations has phase | brought those countries to the brink which ' describes the ideal of mo|of a confiict that will make the last painter, unless perhaps it be : war look like a sham battle. Rubens. —FRANCIS GRIBBLE. —CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER. unrivaled powers of presentation and penetrating analysis, was originally pub- lished more than thirty years ago in two lumes. After ten vears a second edi- tion was issued in three volumes, and in its third edition, published about ten ars ago, it had grown to twelve vol- mes. It is an eminently readable book, written in a lucid, captivating style; in this respect it differs from many books in this field. One critic of the third edi- tion refers to “The Golden Bough" as “that golden treasury of stories for grown-up children”; to read it, he says, is *a liberal education in social anthro- pology i * K K K Shakespeare's seven ages of man, as propounded by the melancholy Jaques, are paralleled by Compton Mackenzie in his latest novel, “The Seven Ages of ‘Woman.” Tt must be confessed that the novel lags a long way behind not only “As You Like It.”” but also all of Mr. Mackenzie's own earlier novels. As Mary Flower progresses through her seven ages, as infant, child, young girl, wite, mother, widow and grandmother, we find ourselves wondering again and again whether she is worth all the analysis bestowed upon her. As an in- dividual she certainly is not. The cen- tral symbolical idea of the book, how- ever, is of interest. As her life unfolds, Mary, the toy of fate, reproduces more or less the stages in the life of her own grandmother and attempts to dominate her children and grandchildren as she herself and her parents were once domi- nated. * ok ok K Not long ago it was announced that the famous Brazillan historian and diplomat, Dr. Manoel de Oliveira Lima, had given his library of 30,000 volumes to the Catholic University of America and that he would spend the remainder of his life in Washington.” Brasil's in- tellectual ambassador to the world,” as a Swedish author has called him, is ac- corded a chapter in the newly published book on “Brazilian Literature,” by Dr. Isaac Goldberg, who is the first to write a volume in "English on the modified Portuguese literature of the great re- public of South America. * ok ok ok The successes of “The Outline of His- tory,” by H. G. Wells, and “The Outline of Sclence,” edited by Dr. J. Arthur ‘Thomson, have led an English publisher to announce the eariy issue of an “Out- line of Literature and Art,” to be edited Jointly by John Drinkwater and Sir| William Orpen. Like the two earlier outlines, this will be published in about twenty-four fortnightly parts, with fully 1,000 illustrations, many in colors. No doubt the work will later be published in America. i ' Attorney General Daugherty comes in for a new rebuke for his alleged | of veterans of the world war who are | incarcerated in federal prisons for crimes. The Governor of Wisconsin, | Mr. Blaine, had asked that the De- | partment of Justice make a survey of | the health of these veterans, and| report whether any of them should be considered for release because of their decline in health. He wrote to Attorney General Daugherty to conditions in Wisconsin, pealed for investigation in other states. He said: “I am sending summary of facts found in Wiscor penal institutions, which ws th a large number of these men mentally and physically deficient, requiring hospitalization rather thai » bars.” And he add _ “You state that ‘I regret it impracticable” You ca no such regret upon any grounds. When the troopship wa the tide, these men were heroe When gassing and shell-shocking have broken them mentally und physically, then, to you, they v behind prison bars, because practicable to bring relief. | trust dictate humanity will com- tention and action.” * % % x The nation has been surfeited with mawkish appeals for the of “political prisoners.” of ve been set free Mr. 1in autosug- ing of Ships and ap- | to state have such is « release Man —notai men were not gass war—unless by their |gestion—nor are they | diseases due to exposure or while doing their duty in def their country The veterans, in prison, in many cases would not have been there but for their physical and _mental sses, due not alone to the cam- paign dships but to the struggle for industrial readjustment their discha from the Army Navy. No one who did not e restlessness of spirft growing out of the war and subsequent discharg« and weary hunt for employment, can understand the temptations and pitfalls of the veteran after his re- lease from militury obligations. If. in his abnormal state of mind, he violated law, is he not worthy of much consideration as the “political” unpatriotic soc were snapping at his he. the months of sacrifice ar The Department of Justi much time to find it “p sift all the evidence of t prisoners,” and t —uwhich have b cases. United with banner-carrying {appealing fc rele H but how is it read 213 like that of Gov. Blaine for for the incarcerated v a or nee so-called lists who uring able in d gra many join in the from mental and p! ntal condi- | | | | ! says Gov. d use of that come 0 th dition n ir sad pli drive to suicide; law, Maj. Gen. the Senate gate the Veterans' hesitate to let it his sy hies e at a dinner given in New Yor ihonor of the new dire f { bureau, General Hines, he the great financial obliga veterans. He said 150 received hospital aid last 00 are still in hospitals. Of this ) one-third are insane, one-third have tuberculosis and the rest have miscellaneous diseases. The attitude of both O'Ry comm the counsel tee to Bureau, be_known v When spe: in to th veterans vear, and tion 0 Director BY THE MARQUISE DE FONT For foreigners there E fmportant high police official France than the so-called chef de surete—that is to sa; the head the department of safet forms part and parcel of t try of the interior—and that is why 1| wish to call attention to Jean Marlier, who has just been appointed to the post. In reality he is the dirccting |force of the secret police of the n: {tion, and his operations, unlike those of the prefect of police of Faris which are confined to the metropolis extend over the entire ¥ It is he who has the supervi control of aliens. If any of ter incur his displeasure or suspicion he has_full auth expel them from French territor his written order without any cial process. Against his edicts deportation there is no redress. save | through appeal to the prime min which, a rule, re answered. metimes _the sions are public and serve : tary lesson. More often they a quiet nature and escape publi servation. But the fact that th | sponsibility is vested in the hands ot | the chef de la surete, and that the| man or woman ordered to be expelled has no reparation of any kind com- ing to him from the courts of law exeroises a wholesome restraint upo the activities of foreign adventurers; and adventuresses who seek their happy hunting ground in France. * % * * It is not necessary that they should have criminal records or that they {should have violate@ any of the laws lot France. Royal princes—that {to say, members of foreign reigning families, imperial grand dukes and} Austrlan archdukes—have been po- litely and unobtrusively asked to leave the country and escorted to the frontier by agents de la sure it they have incurred the displeasu ot the French government by their mode of life, by their political extravaganc or_private excesses. The perfectly authentic Ttal Prince of Formosa, scion of one th 1dest houses of the Sicilian aris- to cy, was quietly taken from one of the best known clubs of the French metropolis, much frequented | {by foreigners—l mean the Travelers' on the Champs Elysees—while seated at u card table and hurried straisht off to the rallroad terminus, to be con- Veyed under escort to the Itailan frontier, not because he had never been caught cheating, but merely for the reason that he had no other avow- able means of support than card playing. There is another Italian prince of ancient lineage, now marrled to an American woman, and whose name has been much in public print, who was asked by the chef de la surcte to leave France because he had start- ed a private card-playing and rou- Jotte establishment in his apartment in one of the fashionable districts of Paris. is la of | minis- | | | count an Lat- the xeite his | r to} | on | udi pains un- exp ter, as n * ok ok K Foreign journalists who in their dispatches to their papers have salled French statesmen in power, and who have earned thelr hostility, have been quietly forced to leave the country, a deaf ear being turned by the government to all appeals in their behalt made by their respective am- bassadors. Gambetta when at the height of his power epdeavored to secure in this way the ‘expulsion ot the late de Blowitz, the celebrated representative for so many years of the London Times in France, in the belief that he was a foreigner. But when the edict of the chef de li surete was served upon de Blowitz he drew attention to the fact that although born in Bohemia he had been naturalized in 1§72 at Mar- 1 indifference to the physical condition 1 | some very { until {the | father CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Hines and General O'Ryan is identi- cal with that of the American Legion, a body—that the Veterans' Bureay for service to the wounded and sick veterans, rather than for the nefit of the place-seekers and the grafters. s No locality can claim to be up with the times now if it cannot buast of ancient discovery, prefer- ating King Tutankhamen. hington must keep in ¢ excavations for the foundations of the Walker Hotel dlsclosed some t tree trunk said that these trees had \ there fifty vears ago. t intists of t r moss which v trees puts the period—some he dispute is on ¥ ok ok ox ecul bout tr n the 100,000 years That tocene And so The forestry gervice of the Depa ment of Agriculture and the Geologl- Soclety had duel over the matter at the last Thursday meeting of the latter society, but the debate ended in the usual tie, such as marks debates from to memories of indeed point lker Hotel as swimmin® James Whit ries count for osses which trust held its grip—a cal a wpproached The ma W 1l on angles. settle te of the the « topics but men North America in undred millenniums ago, % has been recent of Mexico, impress There shown pyramids seck to idences 10,000 interest in the avants great discover, and by telling had lived there As if that were in ies that man years real antiquity. They evide: Piongeon which not read Dr “Queen Moo the tomb, tan, of great queen, gether with her history painted upon its walls, and the embalmed heart of her b sbiand Queen ruled Atlantis, ighty continent which once nected Africa and America which sank in the Atlantic all its cities Tt is perhaps. majest Moo Tared her province, Yiucatan, was the sarden of That ought t 1d ‘em and occupy ttention suvants, at they trace the queen’s back to Eve. Some of Moo's ects were Africans, and some w Chinese, but her Kingdom was before either' Egypt or China. Busts found which prove the race * n of these subjects—some dis- tinetly African and others equally a Uy Mongolian. W knows but that @ Moo was the origi star boarder of the Walker Hotel, an 1 alligators in the “ole swimm tly have hook, 4 the con and ocean, and s awhile” of least gene- orij hole Tt is always gratifving to be dorsed, or even to have persons of pted authority express views sim- ar to one's own. The day after pital Keynotes had argued for a reform of medi practice, so that we would pay doctors to prevent ess rather than cure it after ppeared, Dr. George E. Vince president of the Rockefeller Foun speaking in St. Louls, said We will soon be paying doctors we now pay lawyers—a retainer e by the year, to prevent sickness family. They will visit the 1t certain intervals and, by ations, will prevent, instead of diseases.” (Copyrizh home 1 V. Collins.) Jean Marlier, French Chef de la Surete, Holds Power to Expel Unwanted Aliens a Frenchman. » could not be deported as an n duty of the chet de Ia the care of the dossiers than those comprised in the rchives of the prefecture of police 1 which relate exclusively to ir dictments and convictions, and which, eight or ten million in number, - clude the record of every man or woman guilty of any offense against the laws since 1871, when all polic records and archives up to that da were intentionally destroyed by the leaders of the commune insurrection. * x x other d The dossiers of which the chef la surete has charge are those people who have never come within the clutches of the law, but public characters, statesmen, politicians, fo gn and native diplo; ts, leading bankers, newspaper proprietors and cditors, great ts, captains of in- dustry and of merce—in fact, rly every one capable of exercis a direct or indirect influence upon the course of e These dossiers the result of shadowing and of secret investigation, and revealing, as they do, the skeletons in the closets of every man and woman concerned, placed an enormo pow in the hands of the chef de la surete and of pmediate and hierarchical supe- rior, the ister of th is often premier, art co of the many | prime ministers in forming a cabinet their own hands the port- the department of the int reason of the access which it to them to the ‘dossiers” “surete” and it may be r that when, many vears ago, Daniel Wilson became a very sensational sca that it drove him chamber of deputies. and his n-law, old Jules Grevy, who was perfectly innocent of any wrong- doing. from the presidency of the repubic, he was able to avold being placed on trial and punished for his crimes by threatening to publish in England or in some foreign country some 0,000 of these dossiers affect- ing rly every man in public life rce, of which he had secured while living under the roof of ther-in-law_in the presidential of the Elysecs. Such wide- spread revelations of skeletons in the closets of every public man would have endangered the existence of the renublic, then still in its infancy, and ), while Daniel Wilson's confederates were sent to jail for long terms, he himself escaped any punishment. 3 As for John Marlier, in 1 105 hands the direction of the department de la surete has been placed, he is a man with an absolutely clean record who won his spurs as principal secretary of the late Robert Leullier during the great war, of which Leullier was one of the civilian heroes. Leullier was prefect or governor of the Alsne throughout the conflict, and was present at Soissons during the re- peated bombardments of that city by the Germans, with Secretary Marlier always by his side, no matter how heavy the fire. After the restoration of peace Leullier was made prefect of all the Pas de Calais—namely, of those regions of France which had suffered most_at _the hands of the Germans, in which the entire territory had been devastated and literally shaven of every building and every tree by the enemy. He did so well there that he was promoted to the post of prefect of police of Paris, where his mission, most brilliantly inaugurated, was cut short by premature and sudden death, Marlier being still his secretary and chief assistant. Now Marlier, who has Dbecome & popular figure in metropoli- tan life, has received recognition by appointment amidst general approval to the responsible post of chef de la surete of France, retain in folio of rior by accords of the called the Jate volved in S0 unsavory dal, from n